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Needle Time Lyrics

Artist: Elvis Costello
Album: The Delivery Man

I wish that I didn't hate youLeast not as much as I doAnd squander all my contempt forA little nothing like youLiars like you are ten-a-pennyWomen would slap you, if you knew any

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispenseThese twenty-seven or so yearsYou'd think I (would have) made them some centsNow they want me fingerprintedLike I was smuggling drugsWhile the government does deals with the most convenient thugs

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crimeIt's Needle Time

I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that is hard to extinguishOr maybe I really love youAlthough it's hard to distinguish

I wish I could beA little more like a saint isForgiving those who trespass against us

Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime

I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin withAround the time I tired of those sour English